D. LANG & COUNTRY INFO

D. INFO ON HOME COUNTRIES & LANGUAGES

Defense Institute for Foreign Languages http://www.dliflc.edu/products.html
Culture familiarization (US lang resources) http://famdliflc.lingnet.org/?v=co
US Dept of state (info-history, politics, govt, economy)http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
Library of congress country studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
CIA country facts https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Voices of NYC Project (from real people different language groups)
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/blake.map2001/index.html
World Writing systems of the world (tho a bit technical—need to be familiar w/ IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) http://www.omniglot.com/writing/index.htm
UCLA Language Project Profiles http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?menu=004
Some Language Groups http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/resabout/culture/7_languages/
Ethnologue http://www.ethnologue.org/web.asp
Cultural Profiles for certain refugee groups http://www.culturalorientation.net/pubs.html
NYS NLA guide (Chapter 1, 2 Appendix A, B)
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/biling/resource/NLA.html
Wikipedia (check written language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_languages
Say Hello to the world http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/hello/
schooling in mexico-a guide for educators http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-4/mexico.html
Language Tutorials for L1 pronunciation and language structures etc.
http://www.ielanguages.com
http://www.word2word.com/course.html
http://www.speakeasy.org/~dbrick/Hot/foreign.html
http://www.wannalearn.com/Academic_Subjects/World_Languages

BABELFISH TRANSLATION (not too accurate—try it)
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/babelfish/tr
Reading Transfer from Non-Roman Alphabets (Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Khmer& Lao)
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/resabout/research/nonroman/index.htm
Webliography of least common languages http://www.govtilr.org/Web_LCTL/Index.htm
Russian Lang Info http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Bookstore/3230/basics.html
BETAC-some language resources http://www.betac.org/teacher_links.htm
Getting Kids names right in the registration process
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/appalachia/pdf/REL_2007025.pdf
Language Resources http://linguistlist.org/langres/index.html
The Linguist http://linguistlist.org/sp/LangAnalysis.html#28
Latin Based languages http://www.orbilat.com/index.html

Who are ELLs? Who Are ELLs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Hr3PN9r6I